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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wolfgang Peterson directed this 1981 German box office smash about life on a German U-96 submarine during World War II. In gripping detail, Peterson describes the sweaty, claustrophobic quarters of the boat, and the soldiers' desperate situation as they are under constant threat of attack by the British Navy. Jurgen Pruchnow stars as the stern commander, trying to keep the German effort alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swindling a German U-Boat | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

Lorne Michaels is executive producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live", and more recently the producer of the box-office smash Wayne's World. In a recent interview with 15 Minutes, Michaels spoke of his experiences behind the scenes of both productions...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: The Man Behind The Wayne | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

Nurturing must come later in medical training. The general tone down here is typified by a scrawl in one of the first carrels: "Die of AIDS faggot before I smash your head...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: SCRAWLING GRAFFITI | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

While Straight Out of Brooklyn was not a box-office smash, it is more realistic than New Jack City and more moving than Boyz in the Hood. The movie avoids the glamour of the drug culture and instead focuses on the dilemma facing ambitious Black youths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Case You'd Rather Stay Home | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...they seem to have reached their popularity peak, hovering in a musical purgatory, unable to produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Look Mom No Head | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

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